More Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis
You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.
If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.
I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.
You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.
A man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.
Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
